[sgarland]

Multiples of $8 billion? Oh no, where would we find the money? If this is truly a national security issue, perhaps some of the DoD’s ~$150 billion R&D budget could go towards it.

[prerok]

To be fair: to build whole companies would not cost multiples of 8B but multiples of 150B.

And if you really wanted to cover all "critical" industries, even this would be a drop (or maybe a puddle) in the ocean.